The winner of the $337 million Powerball said today he is a self professed 'hillbilly' and admitted that his first purchase after learning of his good fortune was a pack of gum.

Speaking from Lansing at the Michigan Lottery headquarters as he was presented with his check, Donald Lawson, 44, revealed that he had told his family to all take early retirement and that he was preparing to leave his crime-infested neighbourhood of Lapeer.

Despite his enormous win, the married railroad worker who has two daughters still found time to have a pop at the government for taking $112 million in tax from him - 'I'm kinda pissed at Uncle Sam,' he quipped at his first media appearance since his August 16th win.

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Standing alongside
three family members, an ecstatic Lawson described the moment he learned his life
was about to change, when he checked the ticket he bought at a local Lapeer
Sunoco gas station for the August 15th lottery draw.

'I started reading backwards, and lost my breath,' said Lawson. The winning numbers were 6, 27, 46, 51, 56 and Powerball 21.